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...corporations through leveraged buyouts," he says. "We felt affluent because we were living off borrowed money. We've got to clean up education, clean up the deficit, clean up the drugs, clean up the justice system, clean up industry. But right now it's like Lawrence Welk music: it's just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And nobody will fix it before it breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freed From Greed? | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...weeks. Miller Barber said, "Oh sure, I've won four or five automobiles over the years." Billy Casper was undecided whether his best was in Okinawa, where all Japan carried him off on its shoulders, or Boise, when he skipped the ball over a lake to entertain Lawrence Welk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Aces and a King | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...Harvard this month are: Madonna Louise Ciccone Penn, Cyndi Lauper, Wham!, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Reportedly Twisted Sister and Sheila E. have inquired about playing Class Day gigs. Harvard Alumni Association Executive Director David A. Aloian '49 is in Las Vegas with Wayne Newton filming a Lawrence Welk special and can't be reached for comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Banner Year | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

...each chance to choose two sets of six numbers. In Manhattan the queues were so long and contained such a variety of people that an unaware visitor might have assumed it was the eve of a joint concert by Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Welk. But the tickets, belched out by computers at a peak rate of 22,000 a minute, bought admission to something else: the Great American Get- Rich-Quick Fantasy. As what the tabloids promptly dubbed Lotto Lunacy became epidemic, some 4,000 outlets across the state handled 72 million separate bets. The storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headline Is the Winning Numbers 14 17 22 23 30 47 | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...Power to the Punk People (Polka) (Yelte Velton). Actually, Eugene Levy and John Candy, two grandmasters of comedy from SCTV, doing some memorable demolition work on excesses of the video genre. The Shmenges are a couple of accordion yankers whose attempts to go current have the impact of Lawrence Welk playing a guest set with the Grateful Dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: THE TOP 20 VIDEOS | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

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